Adding & Modifying a

Product

When adding or modifying a product you are presented with the same fields and options.

Product Details

Product Status: A product set to In Stock will be visible to customers. Out of Stock products wont show in categories or searches (unless “show out of stock products” is set globally). The product page is still shown when out of stock but with no add to cart  buttons. Setting a product to Inactive is an alternative way to take the product down from your site without deleting it completely. Inactive products wont show at all and will return a 404 page not found warning. Product Name: This is simply the name of your product. Product Code: You can use this field for a manufacturers code for example. URL Slug: This is only important if you are using friendly urls. The url slug is a means to provide a more readable and seo friendly url for the product. For example a standard product url might look something like http://www.mysite.com/?product=1234567890 and if you enter an url slug eg. blog/greenwidgets/myarticle the new friendly url would be http://www.mysite.com/blog/greenwidgets/myarticle - It is recommend to settle on a slug and not change it once set. If you change the slug on an established page then any manually placed links going to the old friendly url would ideally need to be updated. Price Net: Enter the price excluding tax. The gross price will change automatically. Tax Rate: Select a tax rate for the product. Price Gross: Enter the price including tax. The net price will change automatically. Additional Price Text: Text entered here will appear beside the product price. If the price actual price is set to zero then only this text will be shown if entered. Usually this is left blank but you can use this for special offer text for example or to show a recommended retail price. Main Content: This is where you can add and edit the main content for the product. Usually this will be the product description and can be anything from a simple line of text to a few paragraphs or even more complex content such as embeded images, videos or widgets. If you want to copy and paste content into a content area please bear in mind that the copied content might bring across extra unneeded html code that can bloat or even break your page layout, to help get around this there are “paste as plain text” and “paste from word” buttons in addition to the normal paste function. There are two ways to upload and add images to a content area. The first way is to use the method outlined below under Article Media. The other way is to use the file browser. To open the file browser, click the Insert/Edit Image button (the little tree on the toolbar) then on the dialog box that pops up click the Browse button to the right of the image url field. This will open the file browser where you can upload images and then select them to add to into the content area. Images uploaded thought the file browser are stored in the data/images directory and are included with any backups you make. For advanced html editing you can click the html button on the toolbar or toggle the editor toolbar off and edit the html code directly. If the product is using a page template that has more than one content area specified then additional content areas will be shown here below the main content area. Each content area has it’s own toolbar to allow you to easily format text. Meta Description: This is used mainly to provide search engines with a useful description of the page. Search engines will sometimes use this text when displaying links to the page. Enter one or two sentences with appropriate keywords but don’t just list keywords. Meta Keywords: Comma separate keywords and keyphrases in this field to help search engines index your pages better. SEO wise this is less important than the Meta Description. The cms search feature will check against any keywords entered here and also against the product name. Weight: If you are using shipping options that calculate shipping based on weight you will need to enter the product weight here otherwise you can leave this blank. Categories: Select which categories that you want this product to appear in.

Product Media

Product Image: Use this to upload an image of the product. When the product has been added you can modify it later and add more images. Any images added to the product will be displayed in a gallery on the products detail page. When modifying a product you can also drag or copy the uploaded images into your content areas and resize them as required. Youtube Video ID: If you have a video of your product on Youtube you can add it to the product page by entering the youtube video ID here. Don’t enter the url or embed code here, just the video ID.

Product Options

You can add custom options for your product here. For example if this product was available in red and blue colours you could add an option called Colour with values Red and Blue. Modifiers can also be applied to alter the products price or weight. Typically you should provide at least two values for each option, the first value listed will be selected by default. You can also drag and drop options to sort their order. If you leave the value field blank the customer will enter their own text for that option.

Product Display Options

Page Template: Select the page template that you want to use for this product. Page templates are typically designed and uploaded by a web developer and they determine the overall design and layout of the page. Related Products: You can select other products that are related to this product here and if your product page is setup to show related products they will be shown.

Advanced Product Settings

Product Behaviour: Usually you will want to leave this set to Add to Cart. Set this to Info Only if you want to display the product without add to cart buttons. Product Note Form: Only enable this if you want to allow customers to add a custom note when ordering the product. For example if you are selling a product that can have a personal message or requires more information specified by the customer. File Upload: Only enable this if you want to allow the customer to upload a file in relation to the product. For example if you were selling a product with a custom printed image, the customer could upload the file they want printed on the product. Enquiry Form: Only enable this if you want to include an enquiry form on the product page. In general it’s best not include this as it can distract or delay customer from making a purchase but if you need it for a particular product you can enable it here. Subscription Period: If this product is subscription based enter the subscription period here in days. Leave blank if the product is not subscription based. Subscribe to: You can tie a subscription to specific user groups. When a customer has an active subscription they will be included in any user groups that the subscription has set.

User Group Permissions

Select who can view this product. If you check “Everyone” then anybody can view it. If you check “Registered Users“ then only registered users who are logged in will be able to view it. You can also setup custom user groups and only allow specific users access.

 

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